Professional Development of the Acquisition Workforce

Download or read book Professional Development of the Acquisition Workforce written by John T. Durgala and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The DoD has a well-established program for technical/functional development that features uniform standards across all components. Components are pursuing managerial/leadership development along divergent paths that reflect their unique needs. We have developed an outline to integrate managerial/leadership education and training with the existing technical/functional system. The outline calls for DoD to incorporate the latest advantages in technology to take advantage of the best development practices used by other federal agencies and the private sector. The approach requires no changes in statutes and only minimal modification of existing policy. To implement the ideas presented in the outline, we recommend the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition and Technology) establish managerial/leadership competencies to supplement the existing technical/functional standards, establish continuous learning requirements, and work with the components on a number of programming issues.